The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-04
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
Camping Ous With Luxurious Accompani-
ments-Personal Notes and Gossip.
Life In a Tent.

opeclal 10 the lnOlahaGOns Journdls
New YORK, Sept, 3.-Septembe is the camp
ing month. There are few men who have not
enough of the Bohemian in their makeup to en-
Joy an escape from civilization into the woods,
but the woman who camp is not average
member of her The woman who can be in
duced to live in tent all. however, usually
enjoys it all the more keenly from the sharp
contrast which bed OF hemock twigs and diet
of fish, broiled the end of sharpened stick,
offers to the over-nice conventionalities OF mod
ern Housekeeping.
was talking with An experienced Adrondacks
man about camp outfits the other day. lie said
he saw reason why a camp should not have
all the conveniences and most of the Injuries of
modern household. a camp with spring beds,
hair mattresses. good table-linen, slverware,
and an abundance of cooking utensils; camp
with three or four French cook meals per diem,
and course of dinner served with dainty COM
pleteness. a camp with daily papers and q tee-
phone. seemed to him the acme of comfort.
Aghast such heresy, I asked him why he
didn't demand elevated railroad. import a
stock exchange and establish a counterpart of
the whole mechanism of society he was supposed
to be running away from. or. better yet. refrain
from pulling up his anchors in the city at all.
Then | asked him how he would get his sybaritc
outfit into the wilderness
He was neither crushed by my logic nor with
cred Oy my Scorn. In wagons, he replied.
calmly. "Of course the thing can't be done with
such completeness. except in the of a per-
maneut camp, pitched to stay at least couple
of weeks; but if your ambition is to be perpetu-
ally on the move, l don't want your company in
camp
But did you ever see camp with tele-
phonep
mo; but the thing is feasible, and nv ideal
camp has telephone whether the actual one
has not"
My luxurious friend right in saying that
To ahaI
wagon road any amount of pernicious comforts
can be transported l have myself a
ing machine and piano in tent and observed
a florists wagon depositing load CT greenhouse
darlings to be coaxed to take root and bloom in
the door yard fenced in outside But camping
out of this sort is. my philosophc Adirondack
friend to the contrary Notwithstanding, not
camping at all. 1t is merely living under
every day life that is much more toera-
BILE under slate or shingles.
A camp NAV be pitched anywhere. / have
known a family who understand the art of
Taxation to drive three miles from home and
camp In a romantic cow pasture with the best of
results. The supply of milk unfaine The
cow pasture was, to be sure, an exceptional one,
with a beautiful outlook of river, field and hill.
l have myself camped within a leisurey after
noon row from New York City hail. under the
Palisades, opposite the city, and know few bet
ter places. Thousands of people go further and
do not fare worse, as the banks of the Adirondack
streams or OF Lake Champaln, or Lake George,
or of the st. Lawrence, or of a hundred other
picturesque If less known pools of blue water
within the next six weeks will testify.
camp tent is seldom made of canvas nova
days. It is too heavy for any but three months
sojourn. Oiled duck is better. Ordinary bed
ticking, if set at sufficient angle, will keep off
long rain. The acme of luxury, especially
on a walking and camping trip combined,
is tent OF India rubber gauze, such as
the oicyclist Stevens carried round
the world. have lived some days IN a hut of
hemlock bouRhs that answered all purposes
when il did not rain
1t is in eliminating superfuit,es from necessi-
ties in the camping outt1t that the of
woman's capacity for enjoying the woods comes
in. If she cannot content herself with the
meager list outlined below. the chances are she
would be happier on a hotel piazza. A light and
simple outfit which assumes that the time in the
wilderness is too valuable to spend in house
keeping, allows to each member of the party
necessary toilet articles a blanket and writing
or sketching materials; also one tin plate sliding
cup, knife, fork and spoon The pals for boil
ing coffee and carryine water the tin stewing or
frying-pan, with its handles riveted on, belong to
the party in common. Any multiplication of
from the flavor of genuine camp life and
in camp often moved is utterly i'm practicable
Camp dress for man flannel shirt and
knickerbockers. For a woman it means a loose
short flannel gown, with whaiebones in it,
weighing not over pound and a half half worn
shoes, stout and without much heel. and soft
felt hat that will stand rain which items NAV
be IS picturesque in color chooses to make
them It is mistake to wear too much cloth
ing but jacket for cool days ID tolerated So
equipped, men and women cannot fail come
back to civilization better in mind and BODY
than when they left 1t. 4. p. HEAToN